Melike’s roots lie in the soil of the Turkish town Emirdag, but she grew up in Belgium playing with different bands. Turkish music was never far away though. From all the these diverse influences her own sound has come to life, and so far it has been expressed on three cd’s: Melike – Macar (2004), Longdistance, Harmonia Mundi and Tri A Tolia – Zumurrude (2009), Homerecords.be, and Melike – Inn of Love (2014), Homerecords.be, all internationally well received.
With Osama Abdulrasol and Lode Vercampt she created ‘Tri a Tolia’ bringing Melike’s compositions and Turkish traditionals (album ZUMURRUDE, 2008 Homerecords). In october 2014 ‘Melike’s next album (Inn of Love) was released with Homerecords (Hendrik Braeckman – guitar-, John Snauwaert –sax- and Francois Taillefer – percussion). Release in Turkey with 5 extra bonustracks will be in march 2015 with KALAN Müzik.
Furthermore she sings her own songs that she made together with Bruno De Groote and Petra Doom in ‘EX ORIENTE LUX’ (Bruno de Groote –guitar-, Mattias Debusschere –bass- and Frederik Vandenberghe –drums). Release fall 2015.

She has been on stage with – among others – Merdan Taplak, het Muziek Lod, Dirk Brossé & Brussels Philharmonic, Olla Vogala, LOD & Dick van der Harst (CD GLORIA 2007). She can be heard in various film, music and theatre productions as well (such as Nic Balthazar’s monologue Neeland).